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Microbiome Initiative

From the Environment to Agriculture to Human Health

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Improving lives
with microbiome science, bringing innovation through interdisciplinary collaboration
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UCR Microbiome Initiative
A research catalyst initiative bringing together UCR researchers from multiple fields and across our campus to foster interdisciplinary interactions and leverage the existing resources at UCR to promote Microbiome Science.
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Driving positive change
in human health and the biogeochemical processes that sustain life on our planet.
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Microbiome
The microbiome comprises all of the genetic material within a microbiota (the entire collection of microorganisms in a specific niche, such as the human gut). This can also be referred to as the metagenome of the microbiota. nature.com

UCR's Microbiome Initiative is a consortium of microbiome scientists from across the entire campus. We are united in our pursuit of microbiome science. The Initiative has several goals. 

1) Education. We will be offering several workshops in the 23/24 academic year. 

2) Resources. We work closely with the Life Sciences Incubator and the Genomics Core Facility to help bring useful equipment to campus. For example, we helped bring the Isolation Bio Prospector to the Life Sciences Incubator and NextSeq2000 to the Genomics Core.

3) Connections. We create opportunities to expand microbiome research networks. For example, on September 22, 2023, we are hosting the 9th annual SoCal Microbiome Symposium. 

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